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Paper Traders

June 14, 2013

As much as I love Photoshop and digital art, there are times when I just need to play with paint and paper. That's when I work on my projects for Paper Traders, a Yahoo group that offers challenges, swaps, and fellowship for artists of all levels of experience.

This year, I'm participating in a word prompt challenge in which we're offered a theme and technique to incorporate into a monthly art journal page. This month's prompt was "Give More"and the requirement was to use graphitti style lettering in the design.

Graffitti-style lettering? Does that mean using spray paint? Yes! I finally had a use for that can of black Liquitex spray paint that had been sitting on the shelf gathering dust.

I started off by loosely applying adhesive letters to the page and spray painting that area. After pulling off the letters, I added acrylic paints in a variety of oranges, yellows and reds. Nancy Baumiller's collage images worked perfectly for the page, and I finished it off with gelatos, adding color and shading. It's not my typical page, but I like it. I think I'll be buying more spray paints, and I promise they won't be sitting on the shelf.

April 15, 2013

We're trading art journal pages over at Paper Traders as part of our monthly tip-in project. Each participant chose a journal theme back in January, and we're taking turns completing spreads for each other's albums. When we get our spreads, we insert, or tip in, the pages into our own journals.

For April, I completed two pages for Pam using the theme of Fairies. I think this may just be the grumpiest fairy ever.